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Install Ubuntu On Your PS3 For Vintage Gaming Emulation

It's easy to forget that the PS3 is a fully-equipped PC in your living room attached to your house's best monitor. Installing Ubuntu can help you remember, and play SNES games in the process.

It still kind of surprises me (in a good way) that Sony was, from the start, very OK with PS3 owners tinkering with Linux on their PS3s. A modified release of Yellow Dog Linux was available from the very beginning, and some very handy hard drive partitioning and dual-boot utilities are baked right into the PS3's XMB; Ubuntu gets installed on an entirely separate partition of your PS3's hard disk, so your default system doesn't get touched and switching between Ubuntu and the XMB is a piece of cake.

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Cajun Chicken5563d ago

When I install a bigger HDD, come Summer...I might consider this.

xwabbit5563d ago

Ownage ^^. I will be getting a bigger HDD soon. The 500GB Western Digital Scorpio for 120 bucks on tiger direct :P

Zeevious5563d ago (Edited 5563d ago )

There are free tools to convert your own video's to use the space if your looking to extend it's media use.
http://www.redkawa.com/vide...
http://www.download.com/Koy...
(now at version 1.5, not 1.3 : http://www.koyotesoft.com/i... )

About the only thing you might regret is the automatic, but time consuming lengthy formatting of the drive.

Just think, if it came preformatted the world would be perfect...and how boring that would be!

prunchess5563d ago

I hope some one comes up with an Commodore Amiga emulator for Linux that can be used on the PS3. I've got a big collection of Roms.

Maddens Raiders5563d ago (Edited 5563d ago )

I just don't understand. After looking at the PS3 and what it offers, why would anyone even consider throwing their hard earned money away on anything else? I guess some people will just buy anything these days, no matter the condition of the economy.

TheUsedVersion5563d ago

If I was you I would get a 7200RPM drive instead of the 5200RPM you mentioned. It would be a wise investment even if you are paying a few extra bucks.

The Seagate above the WD you mentioned is a good choice.

http://www.newegg.com/Produ...

Rockstar5563d ago

I can play nes, snes, Genesis, N64 (not well), PSOne, MAME etc, etc, on my modded Xbox...quite sweet actually. XBMC is sweet as well.

As far as which program to use for ripping movies for use with the PS3 I would suggest using a program to rip the main movie to your computers HDD, I use DVD Fab Platinum (free alternatives include DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink if you can find them).

The program I use to take those files and turn it into an XVid is called AutoGK...And the best part is this can rip the 5.1 digital audio and it's a free download, highly recommended to those with surround sound.

uie4rhig5563d ago

you cud install a 3.5" HDD which can go up to a recently announced 2TB :)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch...

Cajun Chicken5563d ago

You have great style and choice, I hope an Linux based Amiga Emu exist.

phosphor1125563d ago

USE YELLOW DOG LINUX. It was made specifically to make use of the ps3 architecture. As Zeevious has been saying in the comments. YDL will give you much better results than Ubuntu will. If you have a desktop and you want linux, go ahead use Ubuntu, but for your PS3 just stick to YDL.

Props to Zeevious for being the only one to mention it before me. Also, this article shouldn't have been approved. Not because it's bad, but it just tells you to use something less efficient when there is something that will run a lot better on the PS3, and you can do the same things, if not more on it. Shame on gizmodo for not doing their research.

prunchess5563d ago

Cheers mate. I spent years selling Amiga's and playing the games. I read the article and thought 'WOW i'd love to play Cinemawares' Wings or Turican on my 42" LCD.

If your ever looking for any Amiga ROMS PM me.

FarEastOrient5563d ago

I played World of Warcraft through my PS3 and Azeroth looks so good on a 42" TV!

Kevin McCallister5562d ago (Edited 5562d ago )

Yeah right. With no access to the GPU, WoW would never even begin to run if you somehow got it working with Wine. Even with GPU access, the game wouldn't run too well due to other limitations in the hardware. I don't even think Wine runs on PPC CPUs. And you definitely didn't get Crysis to run on PS3 as you stated below.

Kevin McCallister5562d ago

This isn't natively running on the PS3 though. If you wanted, you could play WoW and Crysis on a PSP or your cell phone, but neither of those devices will be doing any real work. FarEastOrient was describing the process below, as if it was actually running on the PS3.

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Jager5563d ago

Wow, any idea if i can install PC linux compatible games on the PS3 if i have Ubuntu? wouldnt mind putting BF2 or SC on my ps3 and putting in my Mouse / Keyboard.

Hallucinate5563d ago

no because i the gfx cars is lockdown pretty tight

krouse935563d ago

i think you can but because of the ram it wont play like it would if you had a game on a linux PC.

TheUsedVersion5563d ago

Like someone above said, access to the GPU is completely restricted. So in other words.... no.

FarEastOrient5563d ago

You have to run an SPE as live, instead of cache data as it does on a PC you need to trick the game into running the data live. You have a core run as a regular processor and than you "force" two SPE to run process RAM in real-time with the RSX as a bus and the GPU as the regular GPU, but you have another SPE running the GPU's data.

Does this work for you? So far I've got to run Crysis, World of Warcraft, and hopefully Starcraft II when that one comes out.

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zep5563d ago

YDL is the way to go if you want to play SNES on PS3 well it runs better on YDL as i tried both but i prefer Ubuntu over YDL its just looks so clean and simple :D and thers some windows game you can play like diablo and starcraft need some extra work tho

Zeevious5563d ago (Edited 5563d ago )

I don't think Ubuntu does, but this was such a thorough guide that anyone could follow, I thought it should be posted.

One of the first things I thought would be great when Linux Support was announced was running emulators like Mame, Sega, SuperNES etc because I really have an appreciation for the history of videogames.

It is amazing today starting an emulator of one of the very first consoles, the Magnavox Odyssey to the classic Atari 2600, then Intellivision, Coleco, NES, NeoGeo, CD32, Playstation Classic & Current, XBox Classic & Current and all the ones I'm sure I've missed in-between . . . and seeing the progression through history of where the whole industry came from a little Brown Box in 1967.

I'd love for someone to round up all the emulators, take a few hundred thousand votes and put together a collection through the past 42 years of history...through all the gaming milestones up to today.

Now THAT would be something...to play through 42 years of time as the history of videogames is created & evolves!

Hallucinate5563d ago

really? it took me about 40secs to format my 500gig..eneded up with 415 gigs though )=

Grandreaper99995563d ago

Haven't used much Linux.. But, I must say, with some tweaking, that logo could actually work.. Hell, it's got the three-theme to it. Wouldn't be straying TOO far from the color scheme from the psx logo either.

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Delta, a new all-in-one Nintendo emulator launches for iOS

The new Nintendo-focused emulator for the iPhone is now available with support for several classic systems.

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jznrpg7d ago

How long until they get sued and it gets taken down? I say a month or 2

PRIMORDUS7d ago

Sued for what? It's just an emulator no ROMs are with it. ROMs are easy to get anyway, but with iPhone you can't just copy and paste like Android unless it's jail broken I think. Anyway Nintendo should be more concerned with their ROMs up to torrent for years for all of their concoles, but then again they can't do nothing about it, they never will and I love it. 🤣

NotoriousWhiz7d ago

As long as it isn't emulating the Switch, it'll be fine.

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Knightofelemia7d ago

Won't belong before Nintendo bangs on Apple's door to have the emu removed. Like I say you take down one six more take it's place. Problem is people are putting emu's on such stupid platforms. The good emus are the ones not on stupid platforms like a red target. The good emu's are word of mouth and keep a low profile.

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If Developers Won't Save Their Games, Emulators Will

TheGamer Writes "The only way to preserve gaming history is through emulation."

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banger88291d ago

How do you preserve a game that requires a persistent internet connection? Many future games will be online-only even for single-player. We'll only be able to stream games and you'll have to be connected at all times. That's the disgusting future of gaming.

blackblades291d ago (Edited 291d ago )

That's true, MK11 for example require there server and online for even single player content. Some people out there did make a server etc for some games on a emulator I think. Maybe one day they'll upgrade emulators to be online for todays way of gaming. Also for companies to not be like nintendo

Inverno291d ago

It's possible. Take a look at PlayStation Home, it was shut down years ago and now through PS3 emulation, and emulating PSN, they've brought it back online.

DickyD1226290d ago

That whole psn revamped project is amazing.

jznrpg290d ago

Many of those games aren’t worth saving to me.
I’m sure some will be but I try to stay away from anything online only. There are old online only games that are up and running for the ones that are worthy but some will die like they should.

cammers1995289d ago (Edited 289d ago )

That's like EA and Maxis how they lied and said SimCity 2013 required a server to play because it was too powerful for our PCs but then like a couple months later a hacker made a crack to play it offline and ea shut up about it and finally made an offline mode. 🤣

Persistent internet connection is DRM. Plain and simple.

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XiNatsuDragnel291d ago

Emulators are the future of gaming because console makers aren't going to do squat imo.

Christopher291d ago

Yeah, they totally aren't going to maintain BC support for past-generation games on current-generation consoles. I can say, definitively, that this is not happening at all.

XiNatsuDragnel290d ago

It's like I'm waiting for all nintendo console games on the switch 2 I understand licensing and stuff like that but they gotta make effort or ppl will do it for them.

mastershredder290d ago

ugh…unless they own their game outright, that save/preservation bs you are spewing (the flavor of the month club) is not on them.

neomahi290d ago

This is some sticky territory because I don't buy current gen consoles for games I played yesterday. I move on. Phil Spencer and Xbox design and make THE WORLDS MOST POWERFUL CONSOLE like they have Napoleonic Syndrome and then they want to use all that power to backward compatability and games that look like they should be on the PlayStation, that's why you want the worlds most powerful console? I buy new hardware for new gaming experiences and new games. I'm hearing a lot of current gen gamers (that are older) now talking that with the elimination of physical media for a more digital audience and not letting up on DLC, microtransactions, loot boxes, and season passes, we're smarter than all that and can mic drop and leave at any time. We don't want remasters and remakes. Sure, its fun to remember when we were kids and how much easier life was, it was a simpler time, but we don't want the same old experiences, thats what nostalgia is for, no, we want something new. We want new games that push hardware and promote innovation. Not the same experience repeated over and over. Pushing emulation is just going to force developers to have to remake games over and over because they'll get pirated otherwise and then they can't focus their energy and attention on new experiences and ideas to create nostalgia for the current generation of gamers either, they'll have nothing to look back on. And all the DLC, loot boxes, microtransactions, season passes have got to stop. Maybe its just like my parents use to see when the things they had disapeared and theres just never anything I'll be able to do about it, but there was a time when you bought a game and you got everything with it. Now, before the game goes gold, they dissect it, the game goes gold and then they sell you the rest of the game to pick your pocket for more money. You really think Capcom didn't think ahead with Street Fighter 6. That they thought that at some point they'd integrate Rashid and Akuma and 4 other characters into the game when they got around to it? IF you really think that then you don't deserve to play games, their Season Pass DLC characters are already done and sitting on a HDD waiting for someone to press the upload button, it's all done and has been done and SHOULD have shipped with Street Fighter 6, but because we've gone to GAMES AS A SERVICE business models, this is what we get. Street Fighter IV on the PS3, you played and unlocked additional characters, thats how it used to be, now Capcom wants to sell them too you, but the same is said for Dead or Alive, Guilty Gear, Blazeblue, Mortal Kombat. Theyre selling you games with content you should have already gotten, but they've picked it apart to sell you the rest later for more money, That's dispicable!

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Unlock the Nostalgia: The Ultimate Guide to Downloading Old PC Games

Are you feeling nostalgic for the good old days of gaming? Longing to relive the excitement and joy you experienced while playing those classic PC games from your childhood? If you landed on this site, you probably are. Luckily, we are here for you! In this guide, we will take you on a journey down memory lane and show you how to unlock the nostalgia by downloading and playing your favorite old PC games. Whether it's the iconic adventures of Commander Keen, the strategic battles of Age of Empires, or the addictive puzzles of Myst, we've got you covered. This article will walk you through finding reliable sources and playing those games on your computer, either a PC or a Mac. So, grab your virtual time machine, dust off your floppy disks, and embark on an unforgettable gaming experience that will transport you back to a simpler time. Let's unlock the nostalgia together!

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